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    About OpenSeadragon
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    <h2>About OpenSeadragon</h2>
    <p>
        Microsoft® created a fantastic Ajax-based control for viewing
        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645077(v=VS.95).aspx">Deep Zoom</a> 
        content (hosted at <a href="http://www.seadragon.com/developer/ajax/">Seadragon.com</a>).
        In September 2009, they contributed it back to the community as part of the 
        <a href="http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/">ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit</a> 
        under the <a href="http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/license">New BSD license</a>.
        This is great except that the Ajax Control Toolkit is coupled tightly with ASP.Net Web 
        Forms and Microsoft® Ajax which makes it very difficult to use without that server-side
        framework and the associated Javascript library.
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    <p>
        OpenSeadragon aims to be a framework agnostic and completely open version of Seadragon&trade;
        that can be hosted from your own site.
        Initially, the download contains a sample site using the library with ASP.Net MVC,
        but it should work great on any webpage.
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    <p>
        Please post any bugs/enhancement requests to the Issue Tracker page. And if you create 
        fixes please join the project and submit them for everyone to enjoy.
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